Thanks Randy. A good friend of mine who is a successfull breeder advocates the once and done theory of pairing IF intromission was known to have occurred. Theory being the male just depletes sperm each successive breeding and he hasnt shown multiple pairing to increase fertility. However, in this instance I would be more comfortable with at least one more pairing since I did not witness actual copulation. I also planned to give the female a break too due to potential clocacal trauma since I saw the blood. I paired them Friday, so will probably try them again tonight.

Nice Okeetees BTW!!! Thanks to ALL for your responses.

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• Help!! Blood During Breeding? - KevinM, Sat Feb 27 21:01:12 2010
• RE: Help!! Blood During Breeding? - cochran, Sun Feb 28 03:18:25 2010
• RE: Help!! Blood During Breeding? - KevinM, Sun Feb 28 09:20:57 2010
• RE: Help!! Blood During Breeding? - brhaco, Sun Feb 28 18:20:40 2010
• RE: Help!! Blood During Breeding? - KevinM, Sun Feb 28 18:37:41 2010
• Bingo n/p - brhaco, Mon Mar 1 08:40:01 2010
• RE: Help!! Blood During Breeding? - RandyWhittington, Mon Mar 1 08:17:34 2010
• Can I assume copulation a success? - KevinM, Mon Mar 1 09:17:09 2010
• RE: Can I assume copulation a success? - RandyWhittington, Mon Mar 1 10:11:46 2010
• RE: Can I assume copulation a success? - KevinM, Mon Mar 1 10:44:57 2010
• RE: Can I assume copulation a success? - randywhittington, Mon Mar 1 12:32:18 2010
• RE: Can I assume copulation a success? - KevinM, Mon Mar 1 13:56:27 2010